Muslims vs. Christians
These box plots show the range as well as the majority on Americans' feelings about Muslims and Christians. The box plot on the left displays feelings towards Muslims, and the box plot on the right displays feelings towards Christians. The data shows that the American people tend to feel better about Christians more than Muslims. It's possible to infer that this is because Muslims suffer unfair association with terrorism.
min
1st qu.
median
mean
3rd qu.
max.
na
Christians
0.00
60.00
85.00
78.55
100.00
100.00
253
Muslims
0.00
48.75
50.00
51.79
60.00
100.00
350
Blacks vs. Gays
The scatterplot shows the correlation between African Americans and homosexuals. I chose these two groups of people because they are both groups that have been/are discriminated against. There is a positive correlation of .204 between the two groups. The Americans that took part in this survey show to be more accepting of both groups of people. (The mean rating of gay people is less than the midpoint; can we really say that the survey respondents are "more" accepting of both groups?) Although it is interesting to note the slightly better feelings towards African Americans than towards homosexuals.
(Did you calculate the correlation coefficient?)
min.
1st qu.
median
mean
3rd qu.
max
na
gays
0.00
40.00
50.00
49.74
70.00
100.00
281
blacks
0.00
50.00
70.00
72.04
85.00
100.00
267
Education?!
Next, I decided to discover how the education of the participants in this survey may have influenced the results. The histogram reads from left to right on the X axis: Bachelor's, Master's, PhD, LLB, MD, JDC, Associate's, No degree. This shows that most of the participants had an education past high school, which may explain the positive correlation of the feeling thermometer of blacks and gays. Educated people tend to discriminate less.
(Great job; you could think a little bit more, and in the future write a little bit more, about the substantive significance of your results...)
These box plots show the range as well as the majority on Americans' feelings about Muslims and Christians. The box plot on the left displays feelings towards Muslims, and the box plot on the right displays feelings towards Christians. The data shows that the American people tend to feel better about Christians more than Muslims. It's possible to infer that this is because Muslims suffer unfair association with terrorism.
Blacks vs. Gays
The scatterplot shows the correlation between African Americans and homosexuals. I chose these two groups of people because they are both groups that have been/are discriminated against. There is a positive correlation of .204 between the two groups. The Americans that took part in this survey show to be more accepting of both groups of people. (The mean rating of gay people is less than the midpoint; can we really say that the survey respondents are "more" accepting of both groups?) Although it is interesting to note the slightly better feelings towards African Americans than towards homosexuals.
(Did you calculate the correlation coefficient?)
Education?!
Next, I decided to discover how the education of the participants in this survey may have influenced the results. The histogram reads from left to right on the X axis: Bachelor's, Master's, PhD, LLB, MD, JDC, Associate's, No degree. This shows that most of the participants had an education past high school, which may explain the positive correlation of the feeling thermometer of blacks and gays. Educated people tend to discriminate less.
(Great job; you could think a little bit more, and in the future write a little bit more, about the substantive significance of your results...)